Saturday, April 24, 2010

Humanity : Survival and Growth


A Four Step Work-outs are needed to develop BASE UNDERSTANDING which can work well for survival and growth of humanity.

FIRST STEP: Responsibility and Resolution
We need to take our own responsibility. Be sure that Mr X is not responsible for our pain or pleasure, failure or success. We should not put any blame to others or criticize others for our troubles faced. We should also resolve to accept any required changes in life.

SECOND STEP: Our Social Identity - sense of humanity
We are all human beings. We should no identify ourselves by caste, creed, religion, nationality, social or financial status and not even sex.
Thus when asked, "who are you ?'.. not to answer any of these.. I am an engineer, doctor, teacher, carpenter or .. I am an European, Indian, Japanese, American or Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim or even a girl or a boy. Human being is our identity and only identity.

What should we expect by developing this kind of awareness?
Two benefits:-
1. We will be able to feel 'oneness' with all human being, the world as a whole. We will be able to get rid of many of the confusions and conflicts, we suffered and are still suffering.

2. An aspiration is born within us to raise ourselves to higher state of humanity i.e. Godliness. Truly, there is no person as GOD in this world and  there  is no place as HEAVEN. We will create 'Godliness' within us and create Heaven in and around us. Otherwise we will continue our lives as animal in human skin and create hell for us.

THIRD: Our Personal identity- Self Consciousness
If we ask ourselves- 'who am I', the answer may be -a name.. Amal, Albert, Robin, Angelika, Virginie and so on..
We associate ourselves with name. If someone calls on the road, we instantly respond 'yes, here I am'.
But if my name be changed, will there be any real change? So name has no significance.
We have a body.. a physical form. We look at us on the mirror and identify as form or body.
Is it a complete identity?
No.
Yet we all associate ourselves as body or form and name.
This is the reason we are physically sick and mentally unhappy or distressed.
We always externalize ourselves, either form or name or both.
We forget that we 'exist' in this world. This feeling of 'existence' is very important.
And our very 'existence' is to be manifested in the form of love, creativity, service to the 'Mother Nature'.
An example: A Rose Tree.
It has a name..rose...who cares ? It would have been 'tulip' or something else. So this name has no significance.
It has a form.. a small tree with leaf, there are thorns.. we know.
Is this form or name of a Rose tree is a complete identity?
There is obviously 'something' in it other than FORM and NAME for which this goes deep into the soil.. it grows, and we see buds, flower with colors, fragrance etc.
So it has its existence other than its form or name. This existence is manifested in the form of flowers, colors, fragrance.
We, the human being.. exist in this world. We must be aware of this and our very 'existence' is manifested in the unfolding of our potentialities.. inherent qualities.. creativity.. love.. service to the mankind and nature.
So we are neither NAME nor we are BODY only.
We have a body through which we move.. do physical work. We are not the body only. Similarly we have a mind, through which we think, do memorize and where emotions etc interact. We have a mind. But we are not the mind. We have also energy, we call 'prana' without which body or mind cannot work.
Then who we are ?
We are a 'consciousness' surrounding our body-mind-energy. This is our 'self'.
This self is not isolated. It is connected with or part of the cosmic self or cosmic consciousness. We may call the same as God or the creative force.
This awareness of self or 'self consciousness' will help us to go beyond the darker side of life- loneliness, worry, fear, self distress etc and overall stress.

FOURTH STEP : Nirmal Ananda
At the end of step three, we will feel oneness with the Divine and realize that health, peace, fulfillment are our birthrights.
But in practical field, we experience ill health, sufferings, lack of faith and love. We feel that our life becomes miserable, nothing more than that of a bonded laborur. We feel that we have created hell for us. Why?
Because we have accumulated much toxin in physical and mental level. Physical body and mental body have been polluted and so Prana or life force is unable to flow freely, it's movement is blocked making us physically diseased and mentally distressed.
Nirmal Ananda - a simple way of purification, will teach us how to purify body and mind, so that our receptivity will be increased. We will be able to feel oneness with the Divine and regain the ability to receive the eternal messages and vibration which is full of energy, beauty, peace and love, this vibrant field is always there within us and surrounding us. The process of purification will help us to feel that vibration.
The human life.. devoid of the sense of humanity, when we have become animals in human skin and helplessly fighting for our existence as bonded labours, making our lives miserable can be survived and can break all the obstacles for it's journey towards growth when wecan develop the Base Understanding which requires a four step work-outs as referred to the above.

The next issue :-
Nirmal Ananda - A simple purification process.